Long Beach child hospitalized with rare disease related to West Nile virus

The family of a 13-year-old boy from Long Beach is asking for help as he remains hospitalized with a rare disease linked to the West Nile virus, doctors say. Joseph Vasquez has been bedridden at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles for three weeks, his family says. Doctors there diagnosed him with transverse myelitis, a rare neurological […]The family of a 13-year-old boy from Long Beach is asking for help as he remains hospitalized with a rare disease linked to the West Nile virus, doctors say. Joseph Vasquez has been bedridden at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles for three weeks, his family says. Doctors there diagnosed him with transverse myelitis, a rare neurological […]